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Hello Board. I have a pressurised hw/ch system with a mains that's shared with thine neighbour. Over a year ago, we noticed lowered pressure in our water, the 2nd floor loft electric shower burned out. Investigation told me this was because the water flow was too low. Water Co. came and tested...

Hello Board! Our end of terrace hallway floor is begging to collapse a bit. Partly because i think an old pipe trench leading to another room has collapsed underneath it and mostly because of old age. The origianl tiling is still there, it's all coming up and cracking. The original flooring...

Hello Forum! I hope you're all well and good in this New Year so far. I think I have a leak and I would like some help from you all building a diagnostic pathway; with, I presume, "No leak and a misunderstood easy fix" at one end and "dig up 45m2 of kitchen floor to replace underfloor heating"...

Hi Board! It's been ages, again. Glad you're all still here. Got ourselves a kitchen extension but now we're left with the bit between the new bit and the old bit. The electrics were left in a mess, so they're now sorted out. We've had the roof part replaced and a new window put in. Now i...

Hello Board! We had a loft extension; I kept the purlin timber and rafters. The wood is 115 years old. I put them in a dry airy space for 8 months and then i skimmed the sides to flatten them off. I've glued them all together, mostly. They are now in two halves so I'll glue them together...

HI Board! I'm here to ask for your help, again. OK, we've had our kitchen fitted and the tiler finished yesterday. He went to put the programmer for our CH back onto the wall bracket and as he does, the thing goes POP, trying to spot weld itself to our ring mains. Black Smoke Of Dead...

Hi Board, I hope you're all well. It has been a while since i last posted and i don't usually venture into the woodworking forum! I bought a Scheppach sharpening machine as i have loads of tools that i'd like to keep sharp. I assumed there would be some sort of guide in here, but there...

Hello Board! On the front bedroom window, there's been a bit of a drip for a while. It's actually coming through the top wooden portion of the window, like its leaking through the frame. It seems to appear there, leak all down inside the window, through the seal, back outside and down...

Hello Board! We have in the past, had some ongoing problems with our CH system that have resulted in several call outs and unfixed solutions. Recently, a lot of this came to a head and i decided to try and get to the bottom of what was going on. We have a Y system, cold storage tank in the...

Hello Board! I'm trying to put some sludge remover into my CH heating system via the F&E tank. I need to drain down a bit to get the gloop into the circulation. There's a very handy drain valve on the side of the little radiator in the bathroom downstairs. It's got a little point for a...

Hello Board! I've had a few problems with our CH and HW systems over the last 2 years...We have an open system, Cold storage in loft, indirect tank in cupbaord, expansion feed tank in loft, 'T' valve etc. The rads only come on when the thermostat on the tank is calling for heat. When the...

Hello, Our Danfoss CP15 got knocked today and has since failed to work properly. All of a sudden, there's what looks like a small battery symbol in the LCD flashing. And also, i can no longer hit the '+1Hr' button, it just doesn't work. So no heating and no hot water. Any idea what the...

Hello, I am planning on building a set of three shelves to fit inside an alcove. They are all different sizes, the top one being thin and getting wider on the middle one and wider still on the bottom shelf. At one end, they curve so that the left hand side is, say 40cm wide and the...

Hello! Thanks for your input on my last thread - i've now got a load of options and some names of things so i can ask properly. I'm looking for a needle valve - it would be good if i could get one that has one input and two outputs - with the valve controlling the two. So as one increases...

Hello! What is an RJT fitting? I need to connect a copper tube of 54mm to a flat piece of steel - i was looking for some sort of flange to solder onto the copper tube and bolt onto a piece of steel. Someone mentioned an RJT fitting, said it was like a compression fitting or something...

Hello board! I am doing some DIY maintenance to my wooden double glazed windows. A lot of them need the rubber sealing replacing as it is going all nasty, black and cracking. I am trying to source some - i'm going to need about 30m to do all my windows. It's proving really difficult...

'ello! I need to put a path down in the garden - we've thought about a wooden set of steps. I did notice, in my parents house; their decking can get slippy when wet. Any ideas as to how to stop this from happening? The path would run down an incline, in steps. Other than applying...

Hello Board! I posted this in the Windows forum, but i'm sure you chippies will have some advice for me! We live in a 7 year old house with wooden window frames + double glazing. They need some attention - bringing them back to top condition really. Some of the parts just need...

Hello Board! We live in a 7 year old house with wooden window frames + double glazing. They need some attention - bringing them back to top condition really. Some of the parts just need sanding down, priming and painting. I am going to replace the draught excluding foam that is stuck...

Hello Board! I've just finished painting the walls to a room and am going to do the Skirting boards. I've got some high gloss trade paint and a really nice brush. I've prepped the woodwork by sanding it down. Less than a year ago they were taken right back to wood and fully prepped to top...